I hope everyone is having a great time during the Holidays. Christmas may have ended yesterday, but there are still plenty of places to enjoy some winter fun in SL.

I stopped by Nightfall City to see what sort of things I could find. And, if you love beautiful places or have been looking for some great landscapes for winter photography. This is definitely a destination you should check out.

I had a lot of fun walking around this giant winter wonderland.

Some areas are snowy

some even have palm trees

and there are parts where you are in a complete blizzard

This land is filled with beautiful scenes, animals, homes, cars, places for you to relax, and many other amazing winter activities.

If you are looking for some winter time beauty this is where you need to be.

I stopped by a few different stores and snapped a few photos to show what the different advent Calendars might look like.

KittyCatS! Advent has a giant board in their shop as their Calander. Click to get the days free gift & you can also get the previous days you might have missed.

[CIRCA] Living&C&D Designs Advent another large board inside the shop, sometimes their might be a couple to grab instead of one on certain days. This advent ranges from (L$1-L$75) along with joining their group which is free right now.

Sour Pickles Advent has an actual Christmas tree the advent items are located on. Join the free group and you are able to grab one a day.

Fairplay Advent has their advent set up as numbers scattered through out the store. Find the number for the day to get the advent gift.

These are only a couple of ways some of the Advents might be set up. Many on the list are free, some require you to join their free group to participate, and a couple have fee’s to join before you can grab anything off the advent.

There are so many amazing shops joining in with the christmas fun, that everyone will find something they love out of these advent gifts.

Every year I look forward to Halloween, and mostly because I can’t wait to see what comes out for The Pulse Games. Each year it never fails to be amazing & a total surprise.

This year we get to visit Carver’s End, which is set up like a small city. With homes, business’s,

churches, along with some shops you can purchase items, and other things you might expect to find in a city.

The actual thing you are searching for is left to a mystery. But, you will be going from house to house Trick-or-Treating.

Some houses will give goodies, some you may hear a grumpy man telling you to leave, and others you may end up in the home,

or inside different dimension.

To begin you will land outside of the city, you’ll need to cross through the dark tunnel to enter. But before you head in do not forget to grab these items. Or you wont be able to fully participate.

On the left side you will find a box that has all the items, or the right side you can grab them each from the boxes.

Make sure to wear the Carver’s End Radio HUD (as pictured ) The HUD will give you text and audio messages that will help you as you wander through the city of Carvers End. And, in case you find yourself lost at anytime the HUD has a Help button that will bring up a guide, and a Home button to teleport you back to the beginning.

The next thing you need is also very important to play, this will pop-up on your screen. So, make sure to accept The Pulse Games experience key. By accepting this you can fully enjoy everything there is to experience without having pop ups asking for your permission with every little thing. This way Carver’s End will be the only one teleporting you through the area. (below is what the pop-up will look like)

Sound & text are also very important here, this way you can hear & read the sounds and clues. You don’t want to end up missing something that may have been important, just to be confused later. Make sure your volume is on.

There are lots of prizes all over the city, besides the ones from ringing the door bells. Make sure you keep an eye out for little rats, they could be anywhere. These rats have prizes inside of them. ( Below I lightened one of the rats in the photo, so you know what they look like)

If you would like to learn a little bit more you can also visit their Facebook page

This is the beginning of a its own new world. A new life based on betrayal, lies, and deceit. A new beginning a semi-reality show based in Second life.

Now stay with me for a moment.

This new show will be called Exiled! and along with it being semi-scripted. It seems like the people who will be playing the characters will have some openness to improvise onto the characters they portray.

I think this is a pretty awesome idea actually. This is interesting and something different in the realms of what we see day to day in SL.

For some full details on Exiled! and if you are also interested in applying for one of the character roles yourself. You can go here \/

This story line fallows 1918 at the end of WW1. The royal family of Italy had been taken down and moved to London. Along with other Royal families being forced out of their homes, along with them having to sell their jewels.

These royal families lost everything they ever knew, and brought them selves down to mere commoners. And even though everything they went through none of them ever dropped their royal tittles.

There has been a lot of thought put into this backstory, along with the characters themselves. Everything is very detailed which makes a great story line and sounds like it will make for some very interesting episodes to come from this. To catch up on the rest of the backstory \/

After finding this page and reading though everything, I decided to visit the lot they have open to explore the land & home that is open. This place is beautiful there is a grand staircase when you walk in that even sparkles.

The ceiling has a very large beautiful chandelier.

Along with lovely dining

and living room areas.

Take sometime to explore and read up on this royal family soon moving into SL.

\/ If you would like to check out the home for Exiled! here’s the Taxi \/